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Little League Elbow

Your child is excited about being on the baseball or softball team…especially if he or she is a pitcher. But, before you know it you start hearing complaints about elbow pain. It’s likely a very real condition called “Little League Elbow”… a repetitive throwing injury. It occurs with pre and early teens ages 10-15 due to young or immature bones. Excessive throwing causes a strong pull on tendons and ligaments and they can tear away from the bone…and sometimes take small bone fragments with them.

Sometimes the elbow can become compressed causing the bones to start to rub together…and that means real pain. Your child should stop throwing or pitching at the first sign of any elbow discomfort that includes:

Elbow is sore to the touch

Swelling around the elbow

Sudden onset of pain in the elbow

Feeling like something is “giving way” in the elbow

If your child suffers from Little League Elbow, there is treatment and relief. Along with icing and rest, a chiropractor can be an important part of that treatment. Chiropractic care can reduce pain and improve motion by relieving pressure on nerve endings around the joint, as well as provide treatment guidelines toward full recovery.

Don’t let Little League Elbow throw your child a curve ball…visit your chiropractor today and get them back in the game!

Low Back Pain

Forget about major accidents and injuries, it is usually the build up of lots of little things that lead to low back pain. Poor sitting posture, incorrect lifting, even lack of proper exercise can cause stress and imbalances on the spine. As problems accumulate even the slightest thing, like bendingover to pick up a piece of paper, can set off real trouble. The surrounding back muscles go into spasm to protect the stressed or injured tissues. And that means major low back pain.

Low back pain symptoms spread well beyond tenderness and stiffness in the lower back to include:

Pain radiating into the buttocks or legs

Difficulty in standing erect or in one position for a long time

Weakness and leg fatigue while walking

Discomfort while sitting

Real treatment is about reducing pain and increasing flexibility and function, not by treating the symptoms but by treating the problem. Chiropractic care works to correct misaligned or out of place vertebrae and remove pressure on nerve endings. The result is real, long-term relief.

Do not let the little things add up to a big pain, contact your chiropractor today.

Neck Pain

It’s been a long day and you feel it everywhere–especially your neck. There’s that familiar stiff, tight feeling that you can’t seem to massage away. It’s uncomfortable and it hurts. Is it stress? Sitting at your computer all day? That little fender bender you had last week? More often than not, neck pain is the result of a combination of life-style habits like poor sitting posture, reading in bed, sleeping on your stomach and lack of proper exercise. These factors cause misalignments in the spine…and that leads to neck pain.

It starts out as minor pain with tenderness and stiffness in the neck and upper back. Left untreated, spinal misalignments get worse and can put pressure on the surrounding nerves. The result can be:

Muscle spasms

Headaches

Numbness, tingling or weakness in the arms and hands

Before you turn to anit-inflammatories, muscle relaxers or other pain killing medicines, talk with a chiropractor. Medicines treat the symptoms not the underlying problem. And, we usually get excellent results in treating the core issue–spinal misalignment. That means the cause of the pain is corrected…not just covered up.

So don’t let life be a pain in the neck for you or your loved ones…contact your chiropractor today.

Whiplash

A car screeches to a sudden stop… a vehicle is hit from behind… crazy roller coaster rides… severe shaking… all of these incidents can lead to your head being jerked or ‘whipped’ around quickly and severely.

The result of this intense forward/backward motion is that your neck muscles and ligaments are stretched and strained past their normal range of motion… this is whiplash.

The tricky thing about whiplash is that your initial pain and stiffness in your neck can seem to go away after a few days. But the discomfort most often returns and can bring with it:

Blurred vision

Difficulty swallowing

Irritability and fatigue

Dizziness with pain between the shoulder blades

Pain in arms, legs, feet and/or hands

Nausea, ringing in the ears

Vertigo

Numbness or tingling in the jaw or face

Don’t ignore whiplash and hope that it just goes away. Chiropractic care can help alleviate the pain and correct many of the complications you or your loved on is experiencing.

Don’t let a few seconds ruin you for weeks… or longer – contact your chiropractor today.